Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] call [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not much call for these outside of Christmas , my love , ’ the grocer told me , dusting the boxes and rounding the outrageous total down to the nearest pound . |
| 2 | It 's not just that drama teachers are nostalgic romantics who hanker for a simpler way of life ( though there may well be an element of truth in that ) ; it 's that these self-contained communities can not easily call upon outside forces to solve their problems . |
| 3 | And an overwhelming majority thought the photos would not further calls for tougher press controls . |
| 4 | Even the Diet did not immediately call for offensive action against Russia , but it decided to do so when the tsar refused to negotiate on the basis of anything less than abject Polish submission . |
| 5 | The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year . |
| 6 | And he was now frequently called to other public performances ; his first ‘ professional ’ poetry recital was at Dunn 's Jazz Parlour in Montreal , where he recited ‘ Gift ’ to piano accompaniment , in honour of the ancient traditions of poetry . |
| 7 | This is why this account will follow Guillaume ( 1990 : 99 ) in postulating that the support of the infinitive is a " generalized person " not yet defined explicitly as either first , second or third , nor even necessarily calling for ordinal definition ( cf. ( 10 ) above ) . |
| 8 | We did n't actually call on Old Sidney — according to my mage that would n't be ‘ politic ’ . |